More than a million people die prematurely every year in India due to poor air quality. Road transport accounts for more than two thirds of the total air pollution in urban areas. To overcome this massive impact of exhaust emissions (there is a 3% impact to the country’s GDP), partial or complete electrification of vehicles is an absolute necessity.

We design, develop, test, certify and manufacture powertrains for full-electric and hybrid-electric vehicles, which are cost effective, robust and customized for the drive profiles, environmental conditions and driving behaviors commonly found in India and most emerging markets.

Focus Areas

Our proprietary powertrains can be used for two different applications

Full Electric Vehicles

This solution can either be retrofitted into existing vehicle gliders (by replacing the Internal Combustion Engine) or is made available through our OEM partners’ vehicles. We are already working with three OEMs in three different vehicle segments and are developing customized electric powertrains for their future vehicles. Our high efficiency systems provide customers with higher power and longer drive range.

Partially Electrified Vehicles

One rendition of our product can also work alongside the existing ICE engine of the vehicle.

The 48V system, called HyPixi, can be retrofit on in-use fossil fuel vehicles (both diesel & petrol) converting them to hybrid-electric. It operates without needing any external charging from the grid. Using regenerative braking, intelligent 48V charging and electric assist, it is able to achieve 25% improvement in vehicle mileage. For more technical and commercial/procurement details – www.hypixi.in

Competencies

Altigreen has created the full technology stack to help customers transition smoothly to battery electric vehicles. All the components are designed in-house and are manufactured through captive domestic fabrication partners.

Patented high efficiency motors including Brushless DC and AC Induction

Proprietary electronics designed for efficient power management and stability

Core Team

Amitabh Saran

Ph.D. (Computer Science) with 25 years of engineering and business experience in MNCs like TCS, Philips, NASA, Hewlett-Packard; and cofounded startups TriVium and Buzzintown (acquired by Yatra in 2012). He then, quite literally, changed gears to launch Altigreen.

Shalendra Gupta

MBA with 26 years’ finance, business development and manufacturing experience after IIM Ahmedabad, at SBI Capital Markets, Deutsche Bank, Siemens Communications and BCH Electric. He knows how to squeeze every penny’s worth from a vendor without compromising quality!

John Bangura

Ph.D. (Electrical Engineering) with 19 years’ in high performance motors and electronics for aerospace, military and hybrid engines of Goodrich, Boeing, Airbus, John has worked with Black & Decker, AllTools, Pacific Scientific and UTC. He is famously referred to as the “only doctor at Altigreen”!

Joju Chodon

The resident Power Electronics wizard at Altigreen with 17 years’ experience in automotive, aerospace and industrial engineering, last with L&T. He whips out circuit designs at the drop of a hat and surprisingly, gets them right at the first attempt.

Prathamesh Patki

10 years’ experience in Embedded Systems with L&T and John Deere, he talks MatLab models and Embedded C constructs, being a certified Scrum Product Owner with degrees in Electronics, Telecommunication & Real Time OS.

Col Sharad Nigam

A highly decorated officer with 22 years in the EME Corps of the Indian Army, Sharad has an MTech (Electronics) and spent the last 5 years with Tejas Networks and Maverick. At Altigreen, he ensures customer delight and gives marching orders to his service and production teams.

And a team of experienced engineers and prestigious advisors and investors from the automotive industry, IIT Delhi and ARAI.

Global Recognition

Altigreen was selected in the first cohort of the Rocket Space Mobility Tech Accelerator Program founded by BP. Other corporate partners for this program include Magna, Allstate, Volkswagen, ABG and IBM. Altigreen is the only company to be selected from the entire Asia Pacific region.

IoTNext Awards, jointly organised by IESA & TiE Bangalore, chose Altigreen as one of the most promising startups in Automotive domain. Altigreen’s kit was recognized as a unique and innovative product in the Electronics and Semiconductor Industry.

Elecrama Startup Award: The biggest showcase of the world of electricity, ELECRAMA was organized in March 2018. Altigreen won the award while competing with a prestigious lineup of startups in power electronics, renewables, electric transportation, energy storage and automation.

Europe’s largest conference on printed electronics, IDTechEx 2016, awarded Altigreen with the Most Significant Innovation in Electric Vehicles in Berlin, Germany, judged by an independent panel of experts from the automobile industry.

MoveHack 2018: 7,500 individuals and 3,000 teams globally had registered for Govt. of India – NITI Aayog’s global mobility hackathon, MoveHack 2018. Altigreen was announced the Top 10 “Solve It” winner under the theme of multimodal commuter and freight mobility in cities.